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Law Faculty Scholarship

Belmont University

2020

Health Care Reform; Cyber Attacks; Cybersecurity; Health Care Industry; Cybersecurity Task Force; Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015

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Maybe If We Turn It Off And Then Turn It Back On Again? Exploring Health Care Reform As A Means To Curb Cyber Attacks, Deborah Farringer Feb 2020

Maybe If We Turn It Off And Then Turn It Back On Again? Exploring Health Care Reform As A Means To Curb Cyber Attacks, Deborah Farringer

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The health care industry has moved at a rapid pace away from paper records to an electronic platform across almost all sectors — much of it at the encouragement and insistence of the federal government. Such rapid expansion has increased exponentially the risk to individuals in the privacy of their data and, increasingly, to their physical well-being when medical records are inaccessible through ransomware attacks. Recognizing the unique and critical nature of medical records, the United States Congress established the Health Care Industry Cybersecurity Task Force under the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 for the purpose of reviewing cybersecurity …